Technology is an amazing tool with which we can enrich our lives by communicating with and learning from people all around the world. It allows us to have a long distance friendship, keep in touch with our college kids away from home, meet amazing people, build a business faster and more efficiently, and to research and learn things in seconds that would have taken hours or even years the old fashioned way: the card catalog! However, when technology burps, we can find ourselves in 57 varieties of hot water! My cable company decided to upgrade their outdated equipment in order to “improve” their service to me and ended up taking down the entire phone, internet and cable for all of...
Mirror, mirror on my words which reflect upon my heart. Interpretation others find whether I choose wisely or do not! Americans understand that we have the right to free speech, but what we often fail to understand is that our communication has consequences. What we say affects people either negatively or positively. What we say may be interpreted the way we intended or in a way we never even anticipated. Some of the things we say are of little consequence, but much of what we say may have dire consequences if we are not properly understood. If we misspeak and everyone comes to our dinner party a day early while we are in our PJ's, it could only be embarrassing. ...
Top 10 Reasons to Improve Your Communication Skills 10.Your Education 9. Your Job 8. Your Relatives 7. Your Business 6. Your Employees 5. Your Witness 4. Your Friends 3. Your Children 2. Your Marriage 1. Your happiness Studies show that effective communicators do better in school, have deeper relationships, longer marriages, are more successful, make more money and are generally happier than their less articulate counterparts. The Lord felt communication skills so important for our lives that He mentions communication skills literally HUNDREDS of times in His Word. "Let your conversation always be full of grace, seasoned with salt, so that you may know how to answer everyone." -Colossians 4:6 "But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be...
"Tis better to be thought a fool, than open one's mouth and remove all doubt." -Abraham Lincoln Ecclesiastes 3:1 tells us "To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:" a time to speak and a time to...NOT! Our society values information and we assign value to the person who shares it. In his quest for acceptance and to rise to that level of value, man attempts to share what he knows, even if he isn't sure he knows it. It isn't a crime to be ignorant. All intelligent and knowlegable men are ignorant of SOMETHING. Great is the man who shares his knowledge with others, but far greater still is the man...
Spirit of Fear By JoJo Tabares "For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind." -2 Timothy 1:7 KJV Fear in speaking with others is timidity or what we call shyness. According to Webster's dictionary, shyness means "sensitive and hesitant in dealing with others". This is not the spirit of power that should be present inside the Christian for we know that with the Lord all things are possible and, if the Lord is for us, who can be against us? Research shows that 87% of what we do all day is communication related. Maybe that is why the Bible speaks about communication skills hundreds of times. The...
